Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

If I don't have fun, it's my own damn fault.